470 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, 



FoCILIID/E. 



181. Matella caduca, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. !), $ .) 



Poona, July. 



Female. Allied to M. partidpalis. Pale dull chrome-yellow ; 

 fore part of the thorax slightly reddish ; fore wings with the orbicular 

 and reuiform marks white, semidiaphanous, thinly outlined with 

 pale brown; the former small, round; the latter larger, elongated and 

 outwardly excavated ; lines, brownish, sinuous, an antemedial line on 

 the fore wings, only a postmedial across both wings, also a medial 

 less distinct slightly zigzag line across both wings, passing just in 

 front of the reniform stigma on the fore wing, marginal line slightly 

 waved ; underside paler, outer and medial lines well marked, iuner 

 line of fore wing absent. 



Expanse of wings Ij'j inch. 



182. Daxata tantilla, n. sp. 



Bombay, September. 



Above, antennfe, palpi, head, thorax, and all the wings of a dark 

 uniform brown ; abdomen slightly paler, both wings crossed by two 

 much sinuated blackish lines, commencing together about the centre 

 of the hinder margin of the fore wings, gradually separating and 

 terminating on the costa of the fore wings, one before and the other 

 beyond the middle; fore wings with another line submarginal, 

 sinuous, and faintly indicated, beyond which the border of the wing 

 is of a paler colour ; costa with black and yellow spots ; outer marginal 

 lines of both wings black, minutely denticulated, fringe blackish 

 brown, underside whitish. 



Expanse of wings j-^g- inch. 



183. Rh^sena obliquifasciata. 



Rhcpsena obliquifasciata, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 183. 

 Poona. 



Platydid^. 



184. Episparis signata. 

 Ejpisparis signata. Walker, xxxiii. 1032. 

 Poona; Bombay, November. 



Hypenid^. 



185. dichromia orosialis. 



Phaleena-Noctua orosia. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 149, pi. 27.^. 

 fig. D. 



Bichromia orosialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. 18, 7. 



Poona, July. 



186. DiCHROMIA PULLATA. 



Dichromia pullata, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 221. 

 Bombay, September. 



